Donald Trump addressed several issues in a wide-ranging interview with The Des Moines Register Wednesday. In his own words:

NATIONAL DEBT: “What I’m going to do to reduce the debt is create a great economy. That can reduce the deficit better than anything. I am going to bring jobs back home. I am going to stop China from ripping off the United States — they will make $300 billion off us this year. I am going to stop China from manipulating their currency so we buy all their products and they take all our jobs. I will fight OPEC so oil comes way, way down. … I will create a tremendous economy. I will create a proud country.”

ENTITLEMENTS: “I don’t like what’s happening in Washington where the Republican Party, a trap is being set for the Republican Party, where they’re willing to tinker and play with Medicare and Medicaid. Because I am against that. … I pledge right now that I will protect our senior citizens. And I don’t like that the Republicans have gone so far out on a limb about Medicare and Medicaid.”

EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH: “I would say that I’d like to get back to you because I’m studying it very closely. It’s an issue, don’t forget, that as a businessman I’ve never been involved in.”

ABORTION: “If you look at it, I said, ‘It really, really troubles me, and it really, really bothers me, the whole concept of abortion.’ This was years ago, and even then it really bothered me, but I went on the other side of the line. But in thinking about it over the years, I’ve had instances, and one instance in particular, a friend had a child who they were going to abort, and now they have it, and the child is incredible. And the man, he changed his views also because of that.”

CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEMOCRATS: “I’m a very big businessman. I deal with politicians all over the world. And New York is almost exclusively Democratic. You rarely see anybody that’s Republican even close to winning. … And I live here and I do a lot of business here. So I do contribute to Democrats, and I think that’s a positive. … I have a lot of good relationships with Democrats, and it’s time the two parties get together and get this country’s problems solved instead of always fighting and fighting and nothing ever gets done. I am friendly with the other side.”

CONTRIBUTION TO HARRY REID: “I do business in Nevada. I built the tallest building in the state of Nevada, the Trump International Hotel & Towers. … I didn’t know Sharron Angle at all and in fact it was a long time before I ever heard of Sharron Angle. Harry Reid was always very nice, and he was always very nice to me. He asked me for a contribution, a couple of friends of mine that are out there, very good friends of mine that are big developers out there asked me to contribute, and again, I was in the world of business, and I made a contribution to him.”